230 Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.